Cuff-holder



(No Model.)

' E. S. SMITH.

- CUFF HOLDER.

No. 363,691. Patented Mqy 24, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

EDlVARD S. SMITH, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,691, dated May 24, 1887.

Application filed February .11, 1867. Serial K012831503. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. SMITH, of Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut,have invented a new Improvement in Cuff Holders; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a face View; Fig. 2, a side view; Fig. 3, the blank from which the buttonclip is formed; Fig. 4, an end View of the strap with the button attached, showing the manner of closing the end; Fig. 5, a top view of the clasp, showing the projections to form the attachingclip; Fig. 6, a modification of the clasp.

This invention relates to a device for holding detachable cuffs in their proper position on the wrist of the wearer, the object being' to make a flexible connection between the cuff and the shirt itself above the wristband; and the invention consists of a flexible strap having a button rigidlysecured to one end, the said button adapted to engage the button-hole in the cuff, the other end of the said flexible strap provided with a spring-clasp adapted to engage the sleeve, all as more fully hereinafter described.

The flexible strap A is best made from a braided tubular cord, which permits of some degree of elasticity as well as flexibility. At one end a button, B, is secured. This button is formed as a part of or attached to a clip, C. This clip is formed, as seen in Fig. 3, from a sheet-metal plate, a, in width sufficient to extend around the strap A and of length to fully inclo'se the end. At the outer end of the plate is a projecting tongue, I). The button is secured or attached to the plate as at d, Fig. 3, and in the plate spurs e are formed, more or less in number, turned inward from the plate and so as to enter the strap. The clip is bent around the strap, the spurs e e penetrating the strap, and the tongue I) is turned over the end of the strap, so that the clip will fully inclose the end and make a neat finish, as seen in Fig. 4. At the other end a springclasp is attached, the clasp consisting of two ljaws, fg, hinged together, as at 71., and pro vided with the usual spring for this class of clasp, the ends of thej aws being forced together by the spring. One of the jaws, f, is extended tension is constructed with a projection, ll, from each side, sufficient in extent to surround the flexible strap, and in the extension spurs m are formed, turned at right angles to the ex tension and so as to enter the flexible strap, and that end of the flexible strap is laid upon the spurs m m, and then the projections it closed over onto the strap, as seen in Fig. 1, thus firmly securing the clasp to that end of the strap, leaving the strap between the button-clip at one end and the clasp-clip at the opposite end free and flexible.

then the clasp closed upon the sleeve above at the desired point, so that the cuff will be held in proper relation to the wristband of the shirt.

While I prefer to employ the spring-clasp as the best means for engaging the shirt-sleeve, the clasp may be in the form of a shield-pin, as seen in Fig. 6-a common and well-known construction of attaching devicethe base of the pin constructed with an extension and projections Z Z therefrom, as I have described in the case of the clasp, it only being essential to this part of my invention that there shall be a fastening device adapted to engage the sleeve, constructed with a clip, and by the clip secured to one end of the flexible strap.

I am aware that cuff-holders have heretofore been made consisting of a metal plate having a device at one end adapted to be attached to the cuff and at the other end fitted for attachment to the shirt-sleeve; but in such cases the connection between these two points of attachment, being of metal, is hard and unyielding in the direction of its length; but by making the connection non-metallic and flexible a greater freedom is permitted than with the longitudinally-rigid holder. I therefore do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, a cuff-holder consisting of a body having a device at one end to engage the sleeve and at the other end provided with a button to engage the cuff, the essential feature In applying the holder the button is introduced through the button-hole in the cuff, and

beyond the tail 2' ofthe other jaw, and the ex- 7 of my invention being making the said body from a non-metallic material and providing securing devices with clips, by which said de-- Vices are firmly bound to the non-metallic body around one end of said flexible strap, and a clasp at the opposite end, said clasp c011- structed with a clip closed around the other end of said flexible strap, all substantially as 5 or strap. described.

I Claim EDWAPD s SMITH The herein-described cuff-holder, consisting b of the non-metallic flexible strap A, combined with a button, B, at one end, the said button 10 formed as a part of the clip, the said clip closed \Vitnesses:

NATHANIEL R. BRoNsoN, GEO. E. TERRY. 

